- Perfume
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- Nov 07, 2020
Flower Quotes
On blossoming, and what it's asked to represent.
A flower stands in here for artistic growth, a planted tree marking a celebration, and a lotus used as a lens for understanding the universe. One line even imagines a flower shaped for outer space instead of metal. See Flowers quotes for more blossoms.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good poem is an amazing thing: a perfectly distilled, articulate moment. It opens you up - sometimes slowly, like the blooming of a flower, and sometimes with a quick knife-slice.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most guys with toupees overcompensate. They want too much hair. They end up piling it high, looking like a weird flower.
- Jealous
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- Nov 07, 2020
I married a man who was jealous about everything. If I got enthusiastic about a book, about a flower, about a place, about a human being - jealous. 'Don't do it! Stop.' It was depressing, and I couldn't take it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
- Nov 07, 2020
Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
- Bending
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social entrepreneurship is like a butterfly, sucking honey from a flower, but the flower won't die. They're helping the flower to make pollination.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the flower child who will not wilt. You couldn't have asked for anything more.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the illegitimate child of the legitimate theater. I had no training. I came from downtown rock and roll, and when I came in and auditioned for the Broadway revival of 'Hair,' I had no eyebrows - kind of a Bowie-esque glimmer kid. And it was hard representing the flower power era when we were stone cold punks.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020